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Page 31 of 831961 · PDF PAGE 66
… particular Will upon the proper Substance, so that by due Use thou comest at last to its Accomplishment. So general is this Formula, in Truth, that all conscious Actions may be included within its scope. There is also the Converse, as when external Objects create Appetite, whose Satisfaction again reacteth upon the physical Plane. Praise thou the wonder of the Mystery of Nature, rising and falling with every Breath, so that there is no Part which is not mystically Partaker of the Whole. h
1905 · PDF PAGE 198
… and hued, It focussed all the sky and all the plain To its own ugliness. I looked again, And saw its magic in another mood. A shapeless truth took image in my brain. A hollow voice from every quarter cries : ‘*Q thou, zelator of this Paradise, Tell thou the secret of the pillar! None Can hear thee, of the souls beneath the sun. Speak, or the very Godhead in thee dies. For we are many and thy name is One.” The Godhead in me! came The jealous secret and the guarded name. The quest was mine! And yet my thoughts confute My intuition ; and my will …
1898 · PDF PAGE 12
… ; always some poor mad Max Nordau is handy to call everything outside the kitchen the asy- lum. Here, however, there is a substratum of truth. Consider the intolerable long roll of names, all tainted with glorious madness. Baudelaire the diabolist, debauchee of sadism, whose dreams are night mares, and whose waking hours delirium ; Rollinat the necro- phile, the poet of phthisis, the anxiomaniac ; Péladan, the high priest—of nonsense ; Mendés, frivolous and scoffing sensualist ; besides a host of others, most alike in this, that, below the clo…
1899 · PDF PAGE 8
…onourable grave Of fallen tyranny, may seek her sire In the pure soul of Man, her lips may lave In the pure waters of her soul’s desire, Truth: and deep eyes behold thine eyes as deep, Fresh lips kiss thine that kissed her soul from sleep. See Italy, the eagle of all time, Triumphant, from her coffin’s leaden prison, Soar into freedom, seek the heights sublime Of self-reliance, from those depths new-risen, Stirred by the passion of thy mighty rhyme: Eagle, and phoenix: shrill, sharp flames bedizen The burning citadel, where crested Man Leaps sw…
1899 · PDF PAGE 76
…ster, gnashing at my soul Abominable teeth? Art thou the fiend WhomI have seen in sleep, and waking served? O horrible distortion of all truth That I must serve thee still. Thy word’s a lie, That if I keep my silence, I do good To her, the milk-white virgin sacrifice, And only smite the bloody father down! A lie, Isay! A lie! Yet—dare I speak, Those eyes upon me, torturing my soul And threatening revenge? His fingers gross, Purple, and horrible, to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat. O Hell! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To put…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…ill, fhat the memories of other incarnations are dreamsj but dreams are determined by reality just as much as the events of the day. The truth is to be apprehended by the correct translation of the symbolic language. The last section of the Oath of the Master of the Temple is: “I swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soûl.” The Magical Memory is (in the last analysis) one manner, and, as expérience testifies, one of the most important manners, of performing this vow. 59
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
believe.* The man is at once the most truthful writer and the most consummate liar of all time. He selects truth or falsehood without the slightest moral sense or idea of advantage; he asks himself “ Which is humorous ?” and acts accordingly. He chose his love deliberately, I am quite sure, with reference to his art alone. But if our Editor’s conjecture as to the real cause of his death is right, the fire he played with burnt him at last, and he died of the love he had invoked in play. It is the old-story of the magician strangled by the devil.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 20
…emeter eaten, The potion of black Dione distilled, The measure of Pan by whirling women beaten. These are but symbols, and our souls the truth; These sacraments, and we the gods of them ; The sabbath incense curls to us to soothe Our spleen, engarlands us, a diadem For that unutterable deed that hurled Us, flaming thunderbolts! against the world. — In ASIII There needs not ask the obscure oracle Whereto these dire imaginations tend. We read this sigil in the dust of Hell: ” The Gods have given for this no happy end. What end should we desire, w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 121
… stale. Trust me, my merry mood. LUCREZIA. Provided we prevail. Can Venice be deceived ? ALESSANDRO. Could all the angel choirs Make any truth believed ? MONICA. Man thinks as he desires. And all men being blind and deaf ALESSANDRO. It follows then That women will not find much trouble from the men.
1913 · PDF PAGE 160
…er of the judges of the land ; My pen inscribes the sentence , but in all He stands behind me, and directs my hand . Should I invent one truthless explanation , Or fail one sacred precedent to keep , I could no more kneel down in adoration I think I could not even eat or sleep . So, in the name of God , on your confession , Thief, I arrest you, that His wrath may fall Through me, upon you at the coming session . [Innocent enters . God is the law Innocent . Ecclesiastical ! Secular is as nothing in His sight. Outside the Church there is not any …
1914 · PDF PAGE 8
…he names Of holy poets; sure a brute it is. Naught human could so prostitute the aims Of those high souls compact of light and bliss And truth. Shall mere anatomy refute? (The great sow snores)—oh, certainly a brute! Yet, if a brute, why should I hate you so? Because you are my own race turned to dung? ‘Things nearest to us plague us most, we know. ‘Why should such “why?” come tripping to my tongue ? It is love's shrine itself that you pollute; And that is why I hate you, prostitute “Make me a baby!" May a cancer gnaw Your womb! A dropsy make y…
1901 · PDF PAGE 82
… and hued, It focussed all the sky and all the plain To its own ugliness. I looked again, And saw its magic in another mood. A shapeless truth took image in my brain.
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
… may alike become useful and good.” ZOROASTER. CoMPaRABLE to the Alf Laylah was Laylah itself, a very Tower of Babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the Herb—Hashish—the Herb Dangerous. Of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic many have been appalled, many disappointed. Few have dared to crush in arms of steel this burning daughter of the Jinn; to ravish from her poisonous scarlet lips the kisses of death, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
… may alike become useful and good.” ZOROASTER. CoMPaRABLE to the Alf Laylah was Laylah itself, a very Tower of Babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the Herb—Hashish—the Herb Dangerous. Of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic many have been appalled, many disappointed. Few have dared to crush in arms of steel this burning daughter of the Jinn; to ravish from her poisonous scarlet lips the kisses of death, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 64
…ling is still murder: but all this is relative, and relates to the individual in his limitations, not to the absolute). This very simple truth, that the planes are separate, is the greatest of all the discoveries of Fra. P. It is a complete key to life. May 1. A fair. No tendency to sleep. 24 n וו n (The Ο (operation) is a great test of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of…
1912 · PDF PAGE 64
…ling is still murder: but all this is relative, and relates to the individual in his limitations, not to the absolute). This very simple truth, that the planes are separate, is the greatest of all the discoveries of Fra. P. It is a complete key to life. May 1. A fair. No tendency to sleep. 24 n וו n (The Ο (operation) is a great test of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of…
1961 · PDF PAGE 133
…s apart, static and in Division; and thus in a Degree must thou apprehend the Mystery of Change, for it is by Virtue of Change that this Truth of Beauty and Holiness is made steadfast in the Universe. O my Son, there is no Delight sweeter than the continuous Contemplation of this Marvel and Pageant that is ever about thee; it is the Beatitude of the Beatitudes. u
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…sked myself which subject treated of reality in the most intimate and ultimate sense. I was, of course, far from the conception that all truth is equally important, or that no truth can by itself cover the whole ground of existence. My tendency was to discard certain types of research as immaterial. I gradually got the idea that the thing I was looking for was abstruse; and one of the results of this was to induce me to read the literature of alchemy. It is perhaps natural for a young man to confuse obscurity with profundity. With regard to the…
1901 · PDF PAGE 108
…t ! return Into thy shadowy world ! My symbols burn Against thee, shade of terror ! Go ! ” It spoke : “ Yea ! I am human. Know my actual truth : I am that ghost, the father of thy youth ! ” “ Poor wandering phantom ! ”—the exultant yell And wolfish howling of all damnéd souls Peals from the ravening jaws and gulfs of hell : Leaps that foul horror through the terrible Extinguished circle of the burning bowls. Then I remember, fling the gleaming rod Against him : “ Liar, back ! For I am God ! ”
1961 · PDF PAGE 132
…or denying the Laws of their Reaction, yet with Eagles Vision beholding the One Sun of the True Nature of the Whole. Verily, his is the Truth, and unto it did also Dionysus and Tahuti and Sri Krishna set the seal of their Witness. Cleanse herefore thine Heart, o my son, in the Waters of the Great Sea, and enkindle it with the Fire of the Holy Ghost. For his is His peculiar Work of Sanctification. n